. An assessment of the forest and range land situation in the United States. Forests and forestry United States; Forest management United States; Rangelands United States. Table %.M. — Characteristics of the plywood and veneer industry in the United States, by section, 1972 Section Number of establishments Thousands of employees Value of shipments in millions of dollars Hardwood Softwood Hardwood Softwood Hardwood Softwood North South Rocl<y Mountains Pacific Coast 114 200 52 57 11 156 1, United States 366 232 2,0
. An assessment of the forest and range land situation in the United States. Forests and forestry United States; Forest management United States; Rangelands United States. Table %.M. — Characteristics of the plywood and veneer industry in the United States, by section, 1972 Section Number of establishments Thousands of employees Value of shipments in millions of dollars Hardwood Softwood Hardwood Softwood Hardwood Softwood North South Rocl<y Mountains Pacific Coast 114 200 52 57 11 156 1, United States 366 232 2, Source: See source note table 6 8. Northwest. Hardwood veneer log production in 1976 amounted to billion board feet. About two-thirds of this came from the South. Woodpulp Manufacturing There were 331 pulp mills in the United States in 1972 (table ). This included 60 mills that produced market pulp and 271 mills that were integrated with paper, paperboard, building paper, and board mills. Employment, which included employees in the paper and board mills, was 161,000 or 25 percent of total employment in the primary timber processing indus- tries. The combined value of shipments was almost $9 billion. The softwood lumber and plywood industries are concentrated in the West, as is most of the inventory of softwood The number of mills in the woodpulp industry in 1972 was slightly higher than in 1958 and substan- tially above the number reported in the early 1960's (table ). Employment has trended up to the 160,000 level of 1976. The value of shipments in con- stant 1972 dollars has more than doubled, rising from $ billion in 1958 to $ bilHon in 1976. Almost one-half of woodpulp manufacturing estab- lishments reported in 1972 were in the North, but the average size was smaller than in the other geographic sections (table ). More than one-half of the value shipments of the industry and nearly one-half of its employment was in the third of the e
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